Alistair
Trapped
One of the problems with camera traps is that you just get so much footage. And it takes a long time to go through, and then, for me at...
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Alistair
Sep 232 min read
Beavering away ...
After the jubilation of finally getting the licence for the beaver enclosure came the realisation that there was a fair bit of work...
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Jess Hill
Aug 134 min read
Nursery Adventure
We are now 3 months into Cefn Garthenor’s new, and very exciting project… A new Native Tree Nursery! It’s probably time for me to...
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Rob Parry
Jun 2911 min read
Guest blog from INCC
It's blag a blog month, where I shamelessly post somebody else's work. I've pinched an article by Rob Parry about the project, written...
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Alistair
May 303 min read
Returning visitors ...
Some things come back every year … the swallows are the most obvious ones for me as I get a dawn wake up call, currently at around...
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Alistair
Apr 294 min read
Dam excited ...
A bit of exciting news from Cefn Garthenor which comes after a long and somewhat tortuous journey. Last month I received a licence,...
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Alistair
Mar 312 min read
A Soggy Spring has Squelched In
Spring has less sprung than squelched its way into Cefn Garthenor this year. It’s been a warm and wet winter, and the rain has just kept...
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Alistair
Feb 253 min read
Hare today, gone tomorrow?
Many changes at Cefn Garthenor over the last couple of years are hard to see, even if they are important. For example, we had water...
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Alistair
Jan 303 min read
Pond Progress
As both regular readers will know (actually Mum, you’re not reading twice, are you?), it is almost two years since I got the first of the...
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Alistair
Dec 29, 20235 min read
338 reasons why natural regen beats planting trees ...
I told a lot of people that I was planting 400 trees over Christmas. That was a lie on a number of counts. Firstly, it turns out there...
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Alistair
Nov 27, 20232 min read
Introducing the Detritivores ...
It is all too easy to think of this time of year as one of death and decay in nature. The leaves have fallen and not so much seems to be...
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Alistair
Oct 26, 20233 min read
Natural Born Decomposers ...
At the top of Cefn Garthenor’s land there are a good number of semi-improved fields making up around 20% of the area. These are the...
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Alistair
Sep 26, 20235 min read
TB or not TB?
Farmers may wish to switch off here. For those of you who are less familiar the rules and regulations surrounding British agriculture...
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Alistair
Aug 18, 20232 min read
Inspiration (and, err, perspiration)
There is nothing like a crowd of more knowledgeable enthusiasts to re-energise you in whatever you happen to do. I’ve been very lucky in...
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Alistair
Jul 15, 20233 min read
Where did all the water go?
After a long dry patch, as Wimbledon arrived, normal weather service resumed. It’s raining. Wales is famously wet. West Wales doubly so....
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Alistair
Jun 14, 20232 min read
Bridgend College Volunteers help track elusive Marsh Frit …
The late May bank holiday saw wonderful weather and an even more wonderful group of Bridgend College conservation volunteers at Cefn...
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Alistair
May 30, 20236 min read
Dam Bavaria ... Beavers in action
This post is more about the possible future of Cefn Garthenor rather than the here and now. So, bear with me! Beavers have been creeping...
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Alistair
Apr 20, 20232 min read
Calving begins ...
It looks very much as though most, if not all, of my female herd, one cow and ten heifers (a heifer is a female that has yet to have her...
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Alistair
Mar 27, 20232 min read
Love is in the air (and in the ditches)
It’s all going on at Cefn Garthenor. Winter has been making way for spring which is, of course, the time for new life. And there...
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Alistair
Feb 24, 20232 min read
Badgers and a visiting relative
Almost two years ago, when I was first walking the land, on the boundary of what I christened Badger field and a patch of woodland, I...
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